Dan Somen
Technical Director, Product Realization Lab
I didn’t have an “aha moment” when it came to becoming an engineer …
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Rachel Huang
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
I was born in China’s Hunan Province and came to the U.S. alone when I was 17 …
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Barbara Simpson
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I call myself an accidental engineer …
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Simi Aluko
PhD candidate
Civil & Environmental Engineering
My first trip to London opened my mind to the idea that buildings can tell stories …
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Khalid Osman
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Life has taken me on a long journey …
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Ming Luo
Associate Director, Global Engineering Programs
I feel like I’m a very lucky person who’s always had people around me to help as I grow, and …
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Gabriela Velázquez
Assistant Director for Graduate Communities
I didn’t know higher ed/student affairs was a possible career path until I was a junior in …
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Michelle Lucas Rice
Director of Student Services
Mechanical Engineering
As director of the Student Services Office in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I supervise …
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Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba
Assistant Director for Graduate Outreach & Recruitment and Director of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
I’m a Stanford staffer now, but for close to a decade, I encountered the university as a …
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Aaron Brown
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I work in Alison Marsden’s lab, where we study computational modeling of the cardiovascular …
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Michaëlle Mayalu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
My dad was my first introduction to the field of engineering …
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Matthew Edwards
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I’m interested in the ability of high-powered lasers, with their extremely bright light, to help …
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Sherrie Wang
PhD ’21
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I grew up assuming engineering was something I could do largely because of my grandmother …
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Aaron Brown
MS ’23
Mechanical Engineering
I think I first became curious about space and science in middle school …
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Steve Stanghellini
Manager, Research Administration
I lead a small team of engineering research administrators …
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Mary K. McMahon
Director of Finance and Operations
Electrical Engineering
In the electrical engineering department, my job is basically to keep the train going down the track …
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Christopher Hoyt
PhD
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I was born in Salinas, and in those first few weeks I had episodes when I stopped breathing …
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Bianca Jurewicz (Aumann)
M.S., ’23
Mechanical Engineering
My curiosity about engineering has been a part of me since I was a little girl …
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Julia Olivieri
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I never used to think of myself as someone who’d study computer science, and I didn’t think of …
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Christiane Adcock
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I became an engineer to fight climate change …
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Favour Nerrise
Electrical Engineering
I didn’t always have a word for it, but engineering has been part of my life for a long time …
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